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The Spanish government is currently considering passing a law which would protect and promote bullfighting, an outdated spectacle which causes extreme suffering and a slow and tortuous death for the bulls used.
The majority of Spanish citizens don't support bullfighting. Nor do they want their taxes spent protecting it.

What are your thoughts on this? Do you enjoy watching bull fighting yourself? Do you support it or you absolutely despise the idea?

Every opinion is welcome, especially the ones of Tauros & Bouffalant, if you guys are reading this.

Dogfighting happens regardless of whether it is legal or illegal. I don't know how I feel about this, but perhaps by legalizing it, they can at least regulate it to make it less akin to torture and more akin to the kind of fighting dogs and wolves do naturally amongst themselves.

"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all." - H. L. Mencken, unsourced

"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'"- Isaac Asimov, Column in Newsweek (21 January 1980) [source]

Dogfighting happens regardless of whether it is legal or illegal. I don't know how I feel about this, but perhaps by legalizing it, they can at least regulate it to make it less akin to torture and more akin to the kind of fighting dogs and wolves do naturally amongst themselves.

No, it's not dogs, this is what was meant:

It's pretty sad, cowardly and unfair, really, when they stick those blood-sucking stick artifacts on the bull's backs, just so they can get slow and bleed to death.

The conservative media sees bullfighting as a tradition that "reflects the spirit of Spain" and thus banning it would be akin to banning bagguettes in France, pizza in Italy or rain in the UK. In fact, one of the worst conservative media around here (think anything from Rupert Murdoch) has a bull as a logo. It got worse when the State of Catalonia did ban bullfighting within their borders as a form of "animal torture", which spurred even moderate conservative media to headline "Animals win" next to a picture of the Governor and the leaders of the two other parties who supported the law- subtlety.

So when the conservatives won the 2011 election, the pro-bullfighting loby (mostly bullfighters and bull stock breeders) pushed for a federal law promoting and protecting it in the hopes that it would override the Catalan law- and that's where we are.

But bullfighting is not popular anymore- the number of events has been cut in half in the last 5 years (2000 to 1000), the assistence is barely 3,000 people per event (contrast: 30,000 average for football) and, in general, they depend on Government funds to survive. That's why they hope that making it a "protetcted cultural event" will help promote it- otherwise it will continue fading away until it's rightly gone.

My father tells me that the Bull is slaughtered after the fight (unless it beat the man) so that it doesn't run mad and stuff. It's an extreme psychological damage on the Bull, not to mention rage. I don't think it's anything nice and protective.

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